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Where In The World . . .#2 Pilgrims!

  1. The “first” Thanksgiving was held at Plymouth in the year 1621 by Pilgrim colonists and members of the Wampanoag people.
  2. What was the name of the ship that the Pilgrims sailed in to reach the New World?  The Mayflower
  3. Plymouth Rock, the place some believe Mayflower Pilgrims disembarked, can be found in which Eastern State?  Massachussets
  4. Tisquantum (better known as Squanto) helped teach the Pilgrims how to survive in the New World.  What tribe was Squanto a member of?   Patuxet
  5.  Squanto was kidnapped and taken to England in 1605.  True
  6.  Which English city did the Mayflower set sail from ? Plymouth
  7. The Mayflowers original destination was this Colony, now known as the State of Virginia .
  8. Some of the Pilgrims were living in the country of Holland before returning to England to embark on their Mayflower Journey to America.
  9. The first successful permanent English Settlement located in the present US state of Virginia was establish in the year 1607 and was called Jamestown .
  10. The “Lost Colony” was an attempted permanent English settlement in the New World—it was located on  Roanoke Island and established in the year 1587 .

 

Bonus: The Viking Sailor, Leif Erickson ,  has been credited by some, for being the first European to land in the Americas around the year 1000.
 

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